Crispin Blunt becomes first Tory MP to publicly call for Truss to go
Crispin Blunt says ‘the game is up’ for Liz Truss
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Crispin Blunt has urged the Prime Minister to go immediately, as he told Andrew Neil on Channel 4 that “the game is up”. The MP for Reigate is the first Conservative MP to publicly call for Liz Truss to resign, amid reports that MPs are talking privately about removing her from office. Liz Truss has sought to cling onto power this week after a series of damaging U-turns over the controversial mini-budget.
On Friday she replaced her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng with Jeremy Hunt in a move to restore credibility with backbenchers and calm the financial markets.
However, the drastic decision just weeks into her premiership has done little to steady the ship.
When asked whether Ms Truss can survive, Mr Blunt said: “No I think the game is up.
“And it’s now a question of how the succession is managed.”
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Mr Neil followed up: “Let me put it bluntly, to begin with, how would you get rid of her?”
The Tory MP explained: “If there is such a weight of opinion in parliamentary party that we have to a change then it will be affected.
“Exactly how it’s done and under what mechanism – but it will happen.”
He went on to call for a combination of Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt, and Jeremy Hunt to take the top jobs.
Mr Blunt joked: “I would be very, very surprised if there are people dying in a ditch to keep Liz Truss as our prime minister.”
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He continued: “What we need to effect is a transition to some kind of combination of the talents of Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt, and Jeremy Hunt in the top leadership positions in the party.
“They probably need to sit down and have a conversation between themselves about how best to effect the change.
“I think the collective position from those three would command very great support among the parliamentary party and among the party in the country which is desperate to get this sorted out.”
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Also on the programme, former Conservative chancellor George Osborne told Mr Neil that Ms Truss will likely be gone “before Christmas”.
Former health secretary Matt Hancock told the programme that Ms Truss can survive if she acts decisively now.
Earlier today, Robert Halfon, the chair of the Commons education committee, told Sky News that the Prime Minister had been acting like a “libertarian jihadist”.
Meanwhile, Jeremy Hunt himself has pleaded with Tory MPs to get behind Ms Truss and cease discussions about a coup.
Mr Hunt told the BBC a fresh leadership campaign was “the last thing that people really want”.
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